Sentences with phrase «sordid underbelly»

Cady Noland, for example, who holds the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living woman ($ 6.6 m), is a reclusive figurative sculptor whose work explores the sordid underbelly of the American dream.

Assisted by a mysterious and crafty slave named Marduk, Semerket penetrates into the sordid underbelly of this most licentious and sophisticated of ancient metropolises, in the process uncovering a plot that will change the course of Babylonian history.

Ramsay has never shied away from examining the most sordid underbelly of society, and those who must carry the burden.